Lakhimpur Kheri violence case live updates: Union minister's son arrested after 12 hours of questioning

Samajwadi Party (SP) member and former MLA from Aligarh Zameer Ullah Khan has urged the UP government to pay compensation of Rs 45 lakh to the kin of four farmers killed in the Lakhimpur Kheri violence, from the Union minister and his son’s accounts like "they did during the anti-CAA protest".

Shiromani Akali Dal (SAD) leader and former Union minister Harsimrat Kaur Badal on Friday demanded that MoS Ajay Mishra Teni should be dismissed from his post in connection with Lakhimpur Kheri violence on October 03 in which eight people including four farmers were killed.

Punjab Congress president Navjot Singh Sidhu, who met the families of Lakhimpur Kheri victims on Friday along with four other state leaders, began a fast until the Union minister’s son Ashish Mishra, who is accused in the case, did not join investigations, besides taking a vow of silence.

Samajwadi Party on Friday sharpened its attack on the ruling BJP over the Lakhimpur incident in which four farmers and a journalist were mowed down by a jeep belonging to the son of Union minister of state for home. Party’s national president Akhilesh Yadav said the government is merely doing formalities and has done nothing to arrest the Union minister’s son.

Chief minister Yogi Adityanath on Friday said his government won't spare any guilty person in Lakhimpur Kheri violence case, but “arrest would be made on the basis of proof and not on allegations”.

Maintaining that Ashish Mishra was not involved in Tikunia violence and he has ample proof to establish this, Union minister of state for home affairs Ajay Mishra Teni on Friday said his son would present himself before the investigative agencies on Saturday.